Fun Facts About the Name Yasmeen
- More than 6 thousand babies named Yasmeen: U.S. records list 6,184 babies given the name Yasmeen from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Yasmeen Mean?
Yasmeen means "jasmine flower." The name comes from Arabic yāsamīn, which was borrowed from Persian yāsamin, the word for the jasmine plant. The literal sense is the plant or its blossom; the fragrant, romantic associations the name often carries are symbolic, not part of its etymology. Yasmeen is a variant spelling of Yasmin/Yasmine; the related English form is Jasmine.
Yasmeen Name History & Origins
The base word is Persian yāsamin, the jasmine plant. It entered Arabic as yāsamīn and traveled with Arabic and Persian speech into the wider Muslim world. As a given name, Yasmin and its spelling variants are used in Arabic-speaking countries, Iran, Turkey, and South Asia, and later in Europe and the Americas. Yasmeen is an English transliteration that uses ee for the long ī sound; it appears in South Asian and English-language usage.
Jasmine has long been grown for its scent, and the flower appears in Persian and Arabic poetry as an image of fragrance and the beloved. That poetic use is separate from the name's origin, which is the plant word itself. The spelling Yasmeen developed alongside Yasmin, Yasmine, and Jasmine as the name moved between Arabic script, Persian, Urdu, and Latin-alphabet languages.
How Popular is the Name Yasmeen?
Yasmeen recorded its highest annual U.S. birth count in 1997. Its best rank was #724 in 1997.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #1,701 | 121 | 0.0075% |
| 2024 | #1,933 | 103 | 0.0064% |
| 2023 | #2,016 | 98 | 0.0061% |
| 2022 | #2,085 | 93 | 0.0057% |
| 2021 | #1,966 | 100 | 0.0061% |
| 2020 | #1,788 | 111 | 0.0069% |
| 2019 | #2,169 | 86 | 0.0051% |
| 2018 | #1,725 | 120 | 0.0071% |
| 2017 | #1,900 | 107 | 0.0062% |
| 2016 | #2,116 | 93 | 0.0052% |
| 2015 | #1,768 | 119 | 0.0067% |
| 2014 | #1,793 | 115 | 0.0064% |
| 2013 | #1,916 | 105 | 0.0060% |
| 2012 | #1,856 | 109 | 0.0062% |
| 2011 | #1,786 | 114 | 0.0065% |
| 2010 | #1,808 | 114 | 0.0064% |
| 2009 | #1,858 | 115 | 0.0063% |
| 2008 | #1,755 | 127 | 0.0067% |
| 2007 | #1,703 | 129 | 0.0067% |
| 2006 | #1,448 | 155 | 0.0082% |
| 2005 | #1,272 | 177 | 0.0096% |
| 2004 | #1,343 | 159 | 0.0087% |
| 2003 | #1,159 | 187 | 0.0102% |
| 2002 | #1,043 | 207 | 0.0115% |
| 2001 | #1,058 | 202 | 0.0112% |
| 2000 | #974 | 218 | 0.0120% |
| 1999 | #837 | 259 | 0.0146% |
| 1998 | #768 | 281 | 0.0159% |
| 1997 | #724 | 296 | 0.0170% |
| 1996 | #785 | 265 | 0.0151% |
| 1995 | #825 | 239 | 0.0136% |
| 1994 | #938 | 200 | 0.0112% |
| 1993 | #952 | 199 | 0.0110% |
| 1992 | #1,201 | 146 | 0.0079% |
| 1991 | #1,474 | 108 | 0.0058% |
| 1990 | #1,532 | 101 | 0.0053% |
| 1989 | #1,614 | 87 | 0.0047% |
| 1988 | #2,092 | 56 | 0.0031% |
| 1987 | #2,023 | 56 | 0.0032% |
| 1986 | #2,146 | 50 | 0.0029% |
| 1985 | #2,656 | 37 | 0.0022% |
| 1984 | #3,422 | 25 | 0.0015% |
| 1983 | #3,683 | 22 | 0.0013% |
| 1982 | #2,451 | 40 | 0.0024% |
| 1981 | #2,117 | 49 | 0.0029% |
| 1980 | #2,306 | 43 | 0.0026% |
| 1979 | #2,217 | 45 | 0.0028% |
| 1978 | #2,048 | 47 | 0.0031% |
| 1977 | #2,255 | 41 | 0.0027% |
| 1976 | #3,094 | 24 | 0.0016% |
| 1975 | #3,402 | 21 | 0.0014% |
| 1974 | #2,756 | 27 | 0.0018% |
| 1973 | #4,864 | 12 | 0.0008% |
| 1972 | #4,297 | 14 | 0.0009% |
| 1971 | #9,626 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 1970 | #9,341 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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